Physics 9HB Reader—Winter 2007
Textbooks:
- R: Thomas A. Moore, Six Ideas that Shaped Physics,
Unit R: The Laws of Physics are Frame-Independent, Second Edition,
McGraw-Hill, New York (2003). (ISBN 0-07-239714-4)
- T: Thomas A. Moore, Six Ideas that Shaped Physics,
Unit T: Some Processes are Irreversible, Second Edition,
McGraw-Hill, New York (2003). (ISBN 0-07-239715-2)
- Six Ideas WWW.
- Errata.
The following books and articles are just for fun—to flesh out
and deepen some of the ideas and to put their origins in a human,
historical, and cultural context.
Books:
- ECPM: Peter L. Galison, Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps:
Empires of Time, W. W. Norton, New York (2003). (ISBN 0393020010)
- EMC2: David Bodanis, E = mc2: A Biography of the
World's Most Famous Equation,
Berkley Trade, New York (2001). (ISBN 0425181642)
- PoR: Albert Einstein et al, The Principle of Relativity,
Dover Publications (1952). (ISBN 0486600815):
The original papers.
- C: James Gleick, Chaos—Making a New Science,
Penguin Books, New York (1986). (ISBN 0140092501)
Articles:
Chaos: J.P. Crutchfield, J.D. Farmer, N.H. Packard,
and R.S. Shaw, "Chaos", Scientific American 255
(1986) 46--57.
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Odds: Stanislaw Lem, "Odds", The New Yorker
54 (11 December 1978) 38-54.
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CAO: Stanislaw Lem, "Chance and Order", The New Yorker
59 (1984) 88-98.
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ROIC: Mark Buchanan, "Revealing the Order in Chaos",
New Scientist (26 February 2005).
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IAEN:
J. P. Crutchfield, "Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence",
in Complexity: Metaphors, Models, and Reality, G. Cowan, D. Pines,
and D. Melzner, editors, SFI Series in the Sciences of Complexity XIX,
Addison-Wesley, Redwood City (1994) 479-497.
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